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2025
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17093951 |
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- <p>This report documents “Shaping the Ground,” a 2024 action-research challenge in Monti Prenestini (Lazio, Italy) to prototype an replicable method for mapping fruit-tree biodiversity in transitional agricultural landscapes: the first concrete step toward a territorial laboratory envisioned in <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17094305"><em>Transitioning a Landscape</em></a>. The Challenge ran September 30–October 31, 2024(6 days on the ground).</p> <p>The project progressed through four phases—tool design, pilot field testing, a landscape enhancement exercise with Landscape First, and data processing—and focused on learning, documenting, and stewarding tree resources with farmers and local associations. The toolkit comprises: (i) a specification sheet for describing species and cultivars; (ii) a smartphone-based digital form for georeferenced, image-rich specimen records; and (iii) an executive summary of arboricultural techniques to support participatory surveys. </p> <p>Applied across discontinuous plots in the municipalities of Castel San Pietro Romano, Capranica Prenestina, and Rocca di Cave (sample area 9.3 ha), the pilot mapped 542 trees spanning 19 species, revealing distribution patterns, management histories, and the strategic role of field margins. The work connects to the Region of Lazio's stewardship pathways (e.g., ARSIAL and the Voluntary Regional Register of Plant Genetic Resources: RVR), positioning fruit-tree biodiversity as a lever for identity-driven rural regeneration. Appendices include the activity calendar, impact framework, form parameters, the model genetic-resource sheet, high-resolution maps and the Challenge map database (GPKG). </p>